Ten-year-old Bud, a motherless boy living in Flint, Michigan, during the Great Depression, escapes a bad foster home and sets out in search of the man he believes to be his father--the renowned bandleader, H.E. Calloway of Grand Rapids.
The ordinary interactions and everyday routines of the Watsons, an African-American family living in Flint, Michigan, are drastically changed after they go to visit Grandma in Alabama in the summer of 1963.
Annith's worst fears are realized when she discovers that, despite her lifelong training to be an assassin, she is being groomed by the abbess as a Seeress, to be forever shut up in the convent of Saint Mortain.
Left alone after the deaths of her father and brother who take opposite sides in the War for Independence, and fleeing from the British who seek to arrest her, Sarah Bishop struggles to shape a new life for herself in the wilderness.
Young Prince Edward and Tom Canty, a pauper boy who looks just like the royal youth, both learn something about "pleasures and palaces" when they accidentally switch places in sixteenth-century England. Includes an introduction by Christopher Paul Curtis, and a reading group guide.
During one of his several adventurous voyages in the seventeenth century, an Englishman becomes the sole survivor of a shipwreck and lives for nearly thirty years on a desert island.
The lives of twelve-year-old Lou and her younger brother, Oz, change forever in 1940 when an accident involving their parents results in their being uprooted from their New York City home and moved to live with their great-grandmother in the mountains of Virginia.
Nine-year-old Fernando Fadrique, a servant's son, witnesses the battle of Alarcos in 1195, and meets King Alfonso VIII and Rodrigo de Coca, who ask him to be their page.
Bergil, an eighteen-year-old orphan, agrees to do anything in order to defend his king, and meets up with Berk, a mysterious warrior who eventually saves Bergil's life.
